VITAC Captioning New Web Series “Friends in Therapy”

VITAC is pleased to caption the new and hilarious web series Friends in Therapy, a bro-medy that documents best buds Joe and Daryl’s sessions on the couch in friend therapy — think couples’ therapy, but between two bachelors. Aside from the occasional guest star, Joe and Daryl are the only cast members in the 2-3-minute clips, with the viewer taking on the therapist’s perspective as the guys discuss cheating at Scrabble, ex-girlfriends, and being wingmen for each other.

The actors, Joe Towne and Daryl Johnson, have mastered the burgeoning art of the short-form web series: the simple setup and emphasis on a solid script and everyday conflicts that any roommate, little brother, or spouse will understand. What makes “FiT” unique is the comfort with which each of them supply tough love, and the good nature with which the other one takes it. They bill the series as “completely raw and unscripted,” which I took to be tongue-in-cheek until I hit “play”: the two bicker, banter, and finish each other’s sentences with such comfort, that it was easy to imagine the show’s two seasons being shot in one take, and segmented into episodes like “Extra Bacon” and “Twinsies.” When there is a “Bromance” genre, this will be at the top of our list.

Joe and Daryl decided to caption their series because of a deaf viewer’s request, but the captions also benefit the series’ heavy use of wordplay. In season 1, episode 2 (embedded below), when the guys talk about Joe’s supposed drunk-angry-tired Long Island accent, Daryl astutely points out Joe’s usage of “I’m ‘pologize” in place of “I apologize,” a distinction that only high-quality captions such as VITAC’s would be able to express. As with other VITAC-captioned web series like Oh, Liza and Pittsburgh Dad, captions improve a series’ SEO rankings in a search engine, allowing them to reach wider audiences. To inquire about captioning your web series, please email clientservices@vitac.com.